Transcript Derby City’s Local Transport Plan for 2011 (LTP3)

A City Designed for Cycling
Derby City’s Local Transport Plan
for 2011 (LTP3)
Consultation Response
Derby Cycling Group
May, 2010
Presented by
Tony Roelich
Campaigns Co-ordinator
 Derby Cycling Group 2010
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Our Vision for Derby
• The UK’s top cycling city by 2023
• The best facilities in the country
• The greatest % of adults using their bikes
as everyday transport.
• The greatest % of children cycling to
school.
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Achievable?
• A strong, underlying cycling culture
• Compact urban area
• Cycle friendly geography (few big hills)
Imagine the last six years
• 29% more cyclists
• Momentum
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The Aim
To get more people cycling, more safely, more often.
Why promote cycling?
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Reduce congestion and pollution
Improve people’s health and fitness
Realise environmental benefits
Add value to the city
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More cycling means
• More healthy people:
– A 20% increase in cycling in England by 2015 would save the NHS
£246million a year
– Cycling regularly, extends life expectancy by 10 years
• Safety in numbers:
– London: 30% fewer cyclist casualties in 2007 compared to 2001 despite a
90% increase in cyclists
New York City
Cyclist numbers rise 125%
from 80,000 to 180,000 per
day
Casualties fall 50%
From 5,000 to 2,500 per year
© 1997-2010 Transportation Alternatives
http://www.transalt.org/files/newsroom/streetbeat/2009/June/0604.html#safety_in_numbers
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What are the challenges?
• How do we get parents to allow their
children to cycle?
• How do we get adults cycling for transport?
• How do we get older people to keep active
and healthy?
Need new directions and new ideas
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How will we do this?
Implementing procedures:
• Fully integrating cycling into city planning
activities
• Making transport design people centric
• Implementing cycle oriented soft measures
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Derby’s Transport Networks
Derby has:
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A discontinuous cycle network
Some routes and facilities dedicated to cycling
Cyclists mostly sharing the road and walking networks
Create a cycle network
to level the playing field of transport choices
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A distinct, integrated, network covering the whole city
Make delivery of this network a primary objective in LTP3
Start with
A strategic cycle network development plan.
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What is a cycle network?
Lines on a map?
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Choose the right lines
Good design
What is built
Mending it, keeping it clean
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Design Points
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Avoiding “Bad Stuff”
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Concept to handover – consider cycling
Ride the route philosophy
Day and night, sunny, rainy, and icy
Bikes are small, but not infinitely so
Cyclists don’t have eyes in the backs of
their heads
• Training – design standards
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Cycling as Primary Transport
Cycling is often regarded as a Leisure Pursuit
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– Regard cycling as a primary mode of transport
– Aspire to a modal shift towards cycling-as-transport
– Have grand ideas
• Gain modal shift by changing planning emphasis
Design the network for use by
anyone, anywhere, anytime.
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DfT: The Future of Urban Transport
Section 4: Triple win solutions: the choices we must make
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p14…There is rarely a simple trade off between vehicles and other users. But … they still tend too
often to be addressed separately, often by highways engineers and urban planners working in
different parts of a local authority…
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…Consideration of “movement” is also too often focussed on motorised traffic, leaving the needs
of cyclists and pedestrians unheeded. Those planning and managing roads need also to work
closely with those managing footpaths, cycle routes and other Public Rights of Way. ..
Section 5: Vision for the Future:
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p26..Part of the challenge … is that different bodies are responsible for public transport, spatial
planning, and the road network. The powers to reform transport governance are available to help
tackle this problem…but no city has yet put forward a firm proposal to Government.
Section 6: Next Steps
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p27…Although a range of partnerships have developed, few have yet provided sufficient
incentivisation or drive to overcome fragmentation of responsibilities … Nor has championship
within authorities of the needs of walkers and cyclists been strong.
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The Government looks forward to hearing the response of city authorities …
An opportunity for Derby to forge the way ahead
Department for Transport, (The Cabinet Office Strategy Unit )
3rd November, 2009
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/regional/policy/urbantransport/
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/regional/policy/urbantransport/pdf/researchreport.pdf
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Integrating Cycling into Town and
Highways Planning
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Cycling – a core planning consideration
Put leg power before engine power
Cycle access available for resident no.1
Percentage of parking for bicycles
Private dwellings
Commercial sites
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Making Highways Dept responsible
for all cycle routes
How would Highways help?
– Lighting on off-road paths
– Road maintenance which reflects issues affecting
cyclists
– Cycle path and cycle lane maintenance
– Signposting
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Cycle-Centric Design
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Direct, free flowing routes
Wide coverage; flexible routes
No unnecessary delays
Eliminate No-Go areas
(anyone, anywhere, anytime)
Enable any journey
to be made by bike
by anyone
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Positive Discrimination
• Wide area 20mph speed limits
• Restriction of vehicle speeds by road
design
• Cycle by-pass at traffic calming measures
• No central islands
– Replace pedestrian
islands with proper
crossings
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Soft Measures
Non-infrastructure factors which affect levels of cycling
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Cycle training
Cycling advice
Promotion of cycle routes
Promoting the personal benefits of cycling
Engaging with
cyclists
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Soft Measures
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Rigorous enforcement of road traffic law
Protecting the rights of vulnerable road users
Creating a less intimidating road environment
Reinforcing good
driving habits
• Road safety campaigns
• Reporting bad driving
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Protect our local expertise
• Retain whole Cycle Derby organisation after 2011
• Retain combined spending on cycling after CDT
– CDT funding, match funding & normal cycle allocation
• Consult stakeholders to help deliver user friendly
outcomes more cheaply.
• Resist temptation to take an easy cut in the spending
review
– Return on Investment
(3:1 for cycling)
– Levelling the playing field
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Summary
• To get a City Designed for Cycling, Derby must:
– Make cycling a central element in the planning
process
– Make all cycle routes part of the highway
– Deliver consistently designed cycle-centric routes and
facilities
– Broadcast strong messages to inform people about
cycling options
• So that anyone can cycle safely, anywhere at
anytime
Backing a winner:
Make spending on cycling a priority
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Vision
"I think we forget that most people are
not cyclists … We need to attract
people who are not like us. We have got
to persuade people that they can do it
too."
Philip Darnton of Cycling England
from the Bristol Evening Post on 27th October, 2009
A City Designed for Cycling
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